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Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

weekend watchlist: a timely cure for collective cultural amnesia

Tue, Jun 07, 2022
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Plus drone warfare, murder most genteel, and more. (First published May 7th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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my picks for tonight’s 91st Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2018’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Feb 25, 2019
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I correctly guessed 9 out of the 24 categories, which is appalling. I shall be in my corner reprimanding myself.

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AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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OFCS 2018 awards winners announced

Wed, Jan 02, 2019
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Roma wins four awards including Best Picture; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Best Animated Feature.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie review: animation gets reanimated

Wed, Dec 12, 2018
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Has a verve rare in big-budget movies at the moment. Fun and fresh and legitimately engages with its source material on the levels of story, visuals, and mythology all at once. It feels like discovering storytelling anew.

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Venom movie review: no teeth, no bite

Fri, Oct 05, 2018
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A dull, dated comic-book clunker that is somehow even smaller and lesser than the sum of its noisy, junky, clichéd bits. So perfunctory that it saps even its excellent cast of all their charisma.

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